LK Education Bulletin

I recently reconnected with a high school classmate on Facebook. She is now an assistant principal at a school system in Kentucky. While I was browsing through her comments, which are available for all of her friends to read, I saw a post dealing with an IEP. This immediately caught my attention and I read it. The substance of the post was that she was exasperated by an IEP meeting that happened before school started and that anyone familiar with the school she named would know the child and the parents she was talking about. She is walking a fine line dealing with this student's educational information. Especially if it everyone can easily identify the child and the parents. Regardless of the student confidentiality issues, this could be a big problem if the parents learned that she was exasperated with the process and had a problem with these parents. Can you imagine being in a Special Education Due Process proceeding and the ramifications of this post. The morale of the story is do not under any circumstances make this type of post to facebook, myspace etc. This lapse in judgment can be catastrophic to a system and to the child at issue.

As an aside, I am going to be posting weekly to this site with things that I hope will be interesting to those involved in education across the state. Please come back regularly to read my thoughts.

Sam Jackson